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Monthly Archives: October 2015

A midsummer dream: There was Shakespeare in our county park!

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Sept. 16, 2015 — What a Sunday afternoon here! The Greene County Community Players presented a “reader’s theater” performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — the first time the group has done Shakespeare in its 43-year history. And they also performed outdoors for the first time — doing the Sunday…

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October 25, 2015 in Feature Photo.

Don Poggensee shows us amazing photos of migrating “hummers”

IDA GROVE, Iowa, October 1, 2015 — In mid-September, photographer Don Poggensee noticed the migration was underway of hummingbirds coming from far north of Iowa enroute to their winter homes as far south as Central America. “Most of our summer here, I saw very few hummers around my flowers here in northwest Iowa,” Poggensee wrote…

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October 23, 2015 in Feature Photo.

Iowa 150 Reunion Tour reaches Washington DC to end 1,200-mile ride

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Aug. 19, 2015 — About 50 people on the “Iowa 150 Reunion Tour” completed their 24-day, 1,200-mile bicycle ride  on Wednesday by pedaling up the National Mall to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.  Most of those on the Reunion Tour had also ridden in 1995 on the “Iowa 150 Bike Ride/A…

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October 5, 2015 in OFFENBLOGGER.

Cancer is just always throwing curve balls: Surgery is tomorrow

UPDATE on Sept. 22, 2015 — Carla Offenburger’s liver surgery has now been re-scheduled again, and is now set for its original date and time — 7 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.  We got the call early Tuesday morning, Sept. 22, from the staff of Dr. Qasim Chaudhry,…

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October 3, 2015 in My View from the Front Porch.

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